Improvement in dominos



.W. X. STEVENS.

Dominos.

No. 139,928. Patentedjunewnsvs.

AM PHnra-umosnAPH/c co. N. xmsenmvsls maegss) 4 WILLIAM X. STEVENS, OFEAST BROOKFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

INIKPRQVEMEN T IN DOMINOS.

. 139,928, dated June 17, 1873; application filed March 15, 1873.

' dominos or cards so shaped and marked on their faces .that they may bematched, one

f with another, at three or more of their sides in playing. The secondpart of my invention relates to marking and ornamenting dominos bystamping into their faces sheet material of a different color from theblocks, as hereinafter set forth.

Figure lis a plan of one form, (hexagonah) of my dominos as used inplaying a game I have invented, called tip-top.7 Figs. 2, 3,

' and 4i indicate some of the forms to which my invention may beapplied.

These, and pieces of many other forms, both as dominos and cards, markedwith any suitable characters, may be made according to my invent-ion, byplacing some character on each side or edge of the piece, so that thepiece may be matched at three or more sides by similar pieces, formingfigures like patchwork. The old style of dominos is marked to be matchedonly at two ends, so as to increase the forming iigure only in length,while my dominos, being marked at three or more sides, match so as toform a ligure of both length and breadth. When made as cards, they areprinted in the usual Way. When made as dominos, they may be made by anyusual process; but I make them of wood by shaping strips to the rightform and cutting the dominos off from the end of the strip so that thethickness of the domino is lengthwise with the grain. Then they aresmoothed and colored, after which comes the marking, wherein consiststhe second feature of my invention, as follows I use a steel stamp withfigures raised in relief, corresponding to the markings desired on theface of the domino. I lay a sheet of card-board over the domino, andwith the stamp punch the card directly into the domino, the stampcutting the card against the domino, and bedding the cut pieces of cardinto the domino, for figuring and ornamentation.

I do not limit myself to the use of wood as abody to be stamped in thismanner, or to there are many materials that may be thus the marking andornamentation by thus stamping; but- What I claim as my invention, andWish to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. Dominos or cards polygonal in form, having their faces marked neartheir side edges with characters or iigures matchable, one with another,at three or more of the sides so marked, substantially as and for thepurpose specified.

2. The method of marking dominos by means of sheet material stamped uponand into their faces, substantially in the manner described and setforth.

WILLIAM X. STEVENS.

Witnesses: l LUGINDA A. STEVENS, SALLLE E. STEVENS.

paper card-board as the figuring material, for y NITED STATES PATENTCFEICE.

stamped as Well as wood, and there is other l" sheet material than paperthat may serve for

